Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

'Dank Dank' (Reflecting his inability to accept compliments for several years.)

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

I hope they get here soon. The kids are biting at the chomp.

'The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.'